Book log -- June 12

location: mandala House
Finished Book Title Author Genre Pages
Dec 30 Butcher Bird Richard Kadrey Urban Fantasy 257
Jan 09 Territory Emma Bull Historical Fantasy Audio
Feb 15 A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects Cat Valente Faerie Tale Poetry anthology 163
Jan 09 Jigs and Reels Joanne Harris Short story anthology 273
Mar 03 Watchmen Alan Moore Fantasy/Horror graphic novel 12 issues
Mar 30 The Witch's Familiar Raven Grimassi New Age nonfic 155
Apr 20 Too Many Curses A. Lee Martinez Fantasy/humour, YA 316
Apr 28 Jane-Emily / The Witch's Children Patricia Clapp Supernatural 273
May 5 Imager L.E. Modesitt Fantasy Abandoned @ chapter 20
May 7 The Magicians and Mrs. Quent Galen Beckett Fantasy / suspense 498
June 2 A Madness of Angels Kate Griffin Urban Fantasy 458
June 8 Pride and Prejudice and Zombies Austen and Grahame-Smith Horror Abandoned @189
June 12 Graceling Kristin Cashore Fantasy 471
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[info]the_con_cept

Lois Bujold did a book called Imager? I haven't heard of that one, though really I've only read her Sci-Fi, not her fantasy stuff. But the only Imager I can find is by Modesitt. *scratches head*
Posted on Jun. 12th, 2009 11:55 am (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]cluegirl

No, you're right -- I had the author wrong. I didn't have it in front of me, since it's an audiobook.

Thanks for catching that. *Goes to fix the lot.*
Posted on Jun. 12th, 2009 11:57 am (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]the_con_cept

Ah, then I can see why you'd abandon it. Modesitt kind of bores me--good world building, but not enough action, and the characters are generally too passive for my tastes.
Posted on Jun. 12th, 2009 12:06 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]cluegirl

This was my first try for her, and yeah I got hung up on all the endless infodumps. The first half of the book was just spent on getting the hero through school, in no actual support of the plot that I could detect, but entirely devoted to showing off what a cool world this was.

I don't want to have to listen to 12 hours of a poor narrator just to get within shouting distance of the actual plot, thanks!
Posted on Jun. 12th, 2009 12:31 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]tabakat

Can you possible give me the code for this? I want to start keeping one. But am pants at coding.
Posted on Jun. 12th, 2009 01:50 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]cluegirl

<lj user=rabies>'s useful book log code thingy.

Sure. It's not my creation, but I got it from my friend [info]rabies over on LJ, who made it. All I did was to change the colours up a bit so they fit better on my LJ, since her original version was red on black.
For the sake of readability, I'm going to change the brackets to parentheses, but you'll know to replace them when you use it, right?

Oh, and one thing I did learn, was that I can't use this table code with Semagic, because you have to manually click the 'don't auto format' button in each journal site's posting box, and Semagic doesn't do that for you when you use it to crosspost.


Here's the code she sent me when I asked if I could use it:

(center)(table border="0" width="85%")
(tr)
(td bgcolor="#000000" align="center")(b)(font color="#FFFFFF")(font size="1.5")Finished(/font)(/font)(/b)(/td)
(td bgcolor="#000000" align="center")(b)(font color="#FFFFFF")(font size="1.5")Book Title(/font)(/font)(/b)(/td)
(td bgcolor="#000000" align="center")(b)(font color="#FFFFFF")(font size="1.5")Author(/font)(/font)(/b)(/td)
(td bgcolor="#000000" align="center")(b)(font color="#FFFFFF")(font size="1.5")Genre(/font)(/font)(/b)(/td)
(td bgcolor="#000000" align="center")(b)(font color="#FFFFFF")(font size="1.5")Pages(/font)(/font)(/b)(/td)
(/tr)
(tr)
(td align="center")(font size="1.5")Jan 3(/font)(/td)
(td align="center")(font size="1.5")Vector Prime(/font)(/td)
(td align="center")(font size="1.5")R.A. Salvatore(/font)(/td)
(td align="center")(font size="1.5")Science Fiction(/font)(/td)
(td align="center")(font size="1.5")398(/font)(/td)
(/tr)(/table)(/center)


To add more, just copy and paste from the (tr) right before the Jan 3 line to the (/td) right after 398 and change the info in it. Make sure the (/tr)(/table)(/center) is at the very very end of whatever you do, or you'll break your table.

If you want more info in the top half, just add another

(td bgcolor="#000000" align="center")(b)(font color="#FFFFFF")(font size="1.5") info here (/font)(/font)(/b)(/td)

Don't forget to add another
(td align="center")(font size="1.5") info here (/font)(/td) in the second half, though.

As you can see, you can change the colors to whatever you like, too.

Posted on Jun. 12th, 2009 03:46 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply

[info]ktoth04

Do you keep these in a big spreadsheet somewhere? lol. I'm starting one >.>
Posted on Jun. 12th, 2009 02:30 pm (UTC) | | Thread | Reply

[info]cluegirl

No, but I totally should!

I just decided to start keeping a book log this year, after the flood happened, and I realized just how many books I had, but had not actually *read* yet. This helps me keep track, and to prove to myself that yes, yes I DO, in fact, read other things than just fanfic!
Posted on Jun. 12th, 2009 03:47 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Thread | Reply

[info]ktoth04

I'm totally gonna start one >.>
Posted on Jun. 12th, 2009 04:48 pm (UTC) | | Parent | Reply